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AIA wants schools to return to their traditional mission - the quest for truth.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:00:31 +0000en-UShourly1Jewish UCLA Student Given Student Position after Anti-Semitic Students Apologizehttp://www.academia.org/jewish-ucla-student-given-student-position-after-anti-semitic-students-apologize/
http://www.academia.org/jewish-ucla-student-given-student-position-after-anti-semitic-students-apologize/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:00:31 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14991Glad to see that a student received the right appointment to the student body’s judicial council based on merits, not religion.

But to get to this point, where students offered a half-apology and only changed their mind after public pressure, is really the sad part of this.

]]>http://www.academia.org/jewish-ucla-student-given-student-position-after-anti-semitic-students-apologize/feed/0Michelle Rhee’s Policies Still Lingerhttp://www.academia.org/michelle-rhees-policies-still-linger/
http://www.academia.org/michelle-rhees-policies-still-linger/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:00:06 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14974When she served as chancellor of Washington, D.C.’s public schools, Michelle Rhee’s policies provoked scorn from Capital City teachers, to put it mildly. Long gone from the D.C. scene, Rhee’s approach is still benefitting D.C. students.

“Ninety-one percent of the students on opportunity scholarships graduate from high school compared to 77 percent of the students in D.C. public schools,” Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last Thursday. Currently, there are 22 states with private school funding programs, according to Dr. Wolf.

Additionally, some states have Educational Savings Accounts (ESAs), many of which can be used for special education, Wolf related. Internationally, “The Netherlands has had government-funded voucher programs for 100 years,” Wolf said. “Sixty percent of the students there go to private schools and 40 percent attend public schools.” Thus, contrary to assertions of voucher opponents, widespread use of them does not make the state wither away and die.

In the United States, at the federal level, “We already have Title I education spending for the poor,” Ramesh Ponuru of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) pointed out in the same panel Wolf was on. “Let’s let that money follow children to whatever school they attend.”

]]>http://www.academia.org/michelle-rhees-policies-still-linger/feed/0College Fix CPAC Poll shows Rand Paul has the Millennial Votehttp://www.academia.org/college-fix-cpac-poll-shows-rand-paul-has-the-millennial-vote/
http://www.academia.org/college-fix-cpac-poll-shows-rand-paul-has-the-millennial-vote/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 18:00:12 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=15002Rand Paul had 31% of the Millennial vote, Ted Cruz was second with 26% and Scott Walker got 11% of the poll, which had a small sample size. But, 9% were undecided, so the GOP nod could be up for grabs among Millennials.
]]>http://www.academia.org/college-fix-cpac-poll-shows-rand-paul-has-the-millennial-vote/feed/0RIP M. Stanton Evanshttp://www.academia.org/rip-m-stanton-evans/
http://www.academia.org/rip-m-stanton-evans/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 14:53:08 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=15005Our dear friend M. Stanton Evans has passed away. He was a great mentor, friend, and conservative figure, not to mention a superb and detail-oriented writer and researcher. He will be sorely missed.
]]>http://www.academia.org/rip-m-stanton-evans/feed/0NYU Professor links Immigration to Gayshttp://www.academia.org/nyu-professor-links-immigration-to-gays/
http://www.academia.org/nyu-professor-links-immigration-to-gays/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 14:30:36 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14980New York University Professor Cristina Beltrán, a professor who researches feminism, race and gender issues, gave a workshop at UCLA on how illegal immigration is related to gays and the LGBT community. In short, immigrants are being persecuted like AIDS victims were, she alleged.
]]>http://www.academia.org/nyu-professor-links-immigration-to-gays/feed/0Liberal Media fails to Smear Scott Walker, Againhttp://www.academia.org/liberal-media-fails-to-smear-scott-walker-again/
http://www.academia.org/liberal-media-fails-to-smear-scott-walker-again/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 14:00:28 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14997Sounds like a pattern, right?

The liberal press, Jezebel, The Daily Beast and Huffington Post, accused Scott Walker, the presumed GOP front-runner for the 2016 nomination, of pushing to eliminate rules on reporting college rapes. But, they didn’t mention the university system already had standards in place and this wasn’t a bad thing.

This blog appeared originally at our sister organization’s On Target blog.

]]>http://www.academia.org/liberal-media-fails-to-smear-scott-walker-again/feed/0College Sexual Assault creating On-Campus Controversies at Oregonhttp://www.academia.org/college-sexual-assault-creating-on-campus-controversies-at-oregon/
http://www.academia.org/college-sexual-assault-creating-on-campus-controversies-at-oregon/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 23:00:15 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14984The University of Oregon, at least its student body, is putting into place restrictions on Greek fraternities (and not sororities) due to the rising interest in college sexual assault prevention. However, a study that supporters cited is flawed, and yet it was used as the basis for restricting Oregon’s frats.
]]>http://www.academia.org/college-sexual-assault-creating-on-campus-controversies-at-oregon/feed/0Bipartisan Common Core Oppositionhttp://www.academia.org/bipartisan-common-core-opposition/
http://www.academia.org/bipartisan-common-core-opposition/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 22:00:53 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14972Contrary to popular belief, aka news media coverage, opposition to the Common Core education reforms of President Obama is stretching across party lines. “The Democratic Party in the state of Washington just passed a resolution condemning Common Core,” Emmett McGroarty said last Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Bear in mind, this is the same state Democratic party that consistently endorses far-Left candidates such as U. S. Senator Maria Cantwell. McGroarty works with the American Principles Project.

Forty-five states originally signed onto Common Core, Sabrina Schaeffer of the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) pointed out. Schaeffer moderated the panel McGroarty was on.

Forty-two states still have Common Core, Neil McClusky of the Cato Institute noted. McClusky was also on the Common Core panel at CPAC. Although a loss of three may not look like much of a hemorrhage, the drop is more significant when you realize that states face a loss of federal funding for rejecting Common Core.

“People started to realize that Common Core has changed their children’s curriculum,” McClusky concluded. “In math, Common Core ends with half an Algebra II course,” McGroarty claimed.

McGroarty also challenged the logic of Common Core’s Reading Across the Curriculum trend. “Studies show that people who read classical books are better readers than people who read informational texts,” he said. “In fact, they are better readers of informational texts.”

]]>http://www.academia.org/bipartisan-common-core-opposition/feed/0Texas School District tried to Pick and Choose which Religious Speech to Allowhttp://www.academia.org/texas-school-district-tried-to-pick-and-choose-which-religious-speech-to-allow/
http://www.academia.org/texas-school-district-tried-to-pick-and-choose-which-religious-speech-to-allow/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 19:53:01 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14982Interesting court case at the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, where an advertisement was not allowed by a Texas school district to show on a school’s jumbotron during football games.
]]>http://www.academia.org/texas-school-district-tried-to-pick-and-choose-which-religious-speech-to-allow/feed/0Charlie Hebdo Speaker allowed at University of Chicago, after Threats and Protestshttp://www.academia.org/charlie-hebdo-speaker-allowed-at-university-of-chicago-after-threats-and-protests/
http://www.academia.org/charlie-hebdo-speaker-allowed-at-university-of-chicago-after-threats-and-protests/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 14:00:19 +0000http://www.academia.org/?p=14970Kudos to the University of Chicago to not cave to protests and threats against holding the event, where a cartoonist for the French satirical magazine spoke to the college’s French club.
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